Question: You say we must correct the connections in the ten and pray for our friends. How does one pray for friends if their behavior irritates you?

Answer: That is wonderful! It means you have something to pray for and ask the Creator that you will have the right attitude toward your friends so that you constantly forgive and justify them although you accept each other with hostility.

Question: How can we maintain a connection with the Creator when it seems there is no Creator and you see your friends as uncorrected?

Answer: This is similar to how a mother leaves small children in a room, goes out, and closes the door behind her, but she watches them from afar and sees what is happening with them. So it is with you.

You feel that you are forgetting that the Creator is constantly among us, inside us, and around us, and under no circumstances should we leave this fact behind. Therefore, there is nothing we can do here except constantly be careful not to throw the Creator out of sight. Otherwise, we fly out of the real world and from real feelings.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/19/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “She Is Like Merchant-Ships“

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Question: How can you check whether a person is in touch with the Creator or not? Who is that inner voice that one constantly talks to?

Answer: It is him, himself.

Question: There is confusion here. On the one hand, it says: “There is none else besides Him,” i.e., all thoughts of a person come from the Creator. So, is it Him after all?

Answer: It is Him. But the fact is that man does not see the Creator and does not feel Him. He simply acts as directed by the Creator, establishing the necessary connections in the group with his friends who strive for the same goal.

Thus, heading toward one goal, they gradually change from beings who only want to receive into people who want to bestow.

Thats is the gradual approach to the Creator, likeness to Him.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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People ask about this, “Why did a spirit of folly enter? So he would sin.” He said that since there is a rule that “The eye sees and the heart covets,” if a person sees something bad, whether in sight or in thought, he must come to covet it (Rabash, Article No. 5, (1988) “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”)

Question: In this excerpt, it is written about the way a person comes to a descent. How at such a stage, when you just saw something or thought about something, can you immediately come to some kind of understanding and repentance and not develop a thought that leads us away from the purpose of creation?

Answer: We constantly encounter the possibility of falling into egoistic temptation. At first, you look at something without realizing what it is, then you sort of photograph it in yourself, and then you start to relate to it with feelings.

Here you have to stop yourself, not give free rein to your feelings, and switch to something else, that is, look for the opportunity to bestow, connect with friends, unite, and only then add your feelings.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/23, Writing of Rabash “What Is, ‘When Israel Are in Exile, the Shechina Is with Them,’ in the Work?”

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Question: What does the greatness of the Creator is what He gives mean?

Answer: The Creator should not give anything else. If he raises His greatness in you, then in this way He spiritually elevates you, and you no longer need anything.

You will be able to answer all your questions, understand more deeply what we are studying, and you will have the opportunity to go with faith above reason. Thus, you will gradually come to a sense of the upper world.

But do not sit and wait. If you want to get an impression of the greatness of the Creator, then you must act by any means. The most important thing is to do this through getting closer to your friends.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “What Is the Exaltedness of the Creator?”

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If a person has now made up his mind to take upon himself the burden of the kingdom of heaven for eternity, it is considered wholeness (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 58 “Joy Is a ‘Reflection’ of Good Deeds”).

Question: What does taking upon oneself the burden of the kingdom of heaven mean?

Answer: It means that we accept the authority of the Creator upon ourselves. Just as we put a yoke on a horse to plow a field or transport something, so are we ready to take upon ourselves the instructions of the Creator in order to be under His authority all our lives. This is what we must do.

Question: What can keep us in spiritually forever?

Answer: The upper light, under the influence of which you will feel that you are constantly moving toward reaching the highest goal that exists in our world, in the entire universe, and in all worlds.
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From the Daily Kabbalah lesson 12/22/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Joy Is a “Reflection” of Good Deeds“

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Question: What is the mind? Where is it located? Why do we use it? Is it our brain or not?

Answer: Of course the mind is our brain. But we are talking about the spiritual mind, the inner part of our consciousness that we can control. We call it knowledge.

Question: Are we connecting with the Creator through the mind?

Answer: Yes, if we make an effort to do this, we will succeed. However, I want to say that no matter what, all our attempts and efforts that we make trying to ascend to the Creator will nonetheless have their positive consequences—if not now, then later.

Question: What is the difference between mind and knowledge?

Answer: Knowledge is simply accumulation of data. And the mind is the brain’s ability to process the information received, systematize, and use it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/18/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Difference between Faith and Intellect“

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Reception of pleasure—when one receives for one’s own benefit—removes him from cleaving to the Creator.

And this is why we gather here—to establish a society where each of us follows the spirit of bestowing upon the Creator. And to achieve bestowal upon the Creator, we must begin with bestowal upon man, which is called “love of others” (Rabash, “Purpose of Society – 1”).

Instead, one should receive pleasures that bring contentment to the Creator. This means that the creature will want to bestow upon the Creator and will have fear of the Creator, of receiving for oneself, since the reception of pleasure—when one receives for one’s own benefit—removes him from cleaving to the Creator.

Question: Is bestowing upon one’s neighbor and loving one’s neighbor the same?

Answer: Love is a feeling, and bestowal is an action in intention, in thoughts.

The society Rabash writes about consists of selfish individuals who come together with the goal of reaching the Creator and realize their goal through bestowal and love for others. In such a way, we must train ourselves to bestow upon the Creator.

Question: Why can’t one work with Him directly?

Answer: And how would you reveal the Creator if you lack the qualities that He has? It is precisely through drawing closer to others and connecting with friends toward the same goal that you gradually acquire the quality of bestowal that is already the quality of the Creator. You become more similar to Him, start feeling Him, and thus draw closer to Him.

Comment: But a person talks with the Creator within himself.

My Response: These are just his internal ideas, not what happens. To connect with the Creator, we need the same qualities that He has.
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From KabTV’s “Practical Kabbalah” 12/5/23

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But when the shade comes because of a sin, it is called “images, image makers, and sorcerers,” which is “God has made them one opposite the other.” As there are forces in Kedusha to make changes and to show signs and omens, so there are forces in the Sitra Achra (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 39 “And They Sewed Fig Leaves“).

Question: Why is it that when the shade comes because of a sin, it is called “images, image makers, and sorcerers”? What does it mean?

Answer: These are egoistic forces that are opposite to the will to bestow. This is why they are called that.

There are forces of bestowal and forces of reception. The Creator created some against others, and we have to choose which ones we want to develop with. The righteous do not use the force of reception, rather they use the force of bestowal wherever possible.

Comment: First, we need to recognize a sin, but the Sitra Achra does not allow us to do this.

My Response: You should hold on to each other and see how quickly you can identify your egoism and rise above it.

In order to come to this recognition, you need to be honest with each other, to at least open your heart somehow. Then, you will be able to rise above your common egoistic heart together and acquire the quality of bestowal from everyone to everyone.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/20/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “And They Sewed Fig Leaves“

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Internal war and external war are both parts of one single whole. Each spiritual root must clothe in a corporeal branch. It seems that the spiritual root has already touched the corporeal branch and the nation of Israel has already conquered the land of Israel. Why is there a war again?

The point is that the root and the branch must completely grow into each other and exert mutual influence. The root comes in a form that is completely inappropriate for the branch; it must receive a restriction, a screen, and reflected light in order to gradually clothe in the corporeal branch.

War is always caused by a mismatch between the branch and the root. The war that is going on now is the war for the conquest of the land of Israel described in the Torah! This is a process that takes time. We need to internally accept it, agree with the upper government, and believe in salvation.

Only with the help of the army, the force acting from below, and the force of the Creator from above can we build ourselves in the correct form and win. We have no other forces than these two. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are truly a holy army.

In Israel, it is customary to treat the army with sacred respect. But in the Israeli army there really is a spiritual force that raises the people of Israel to the level of the Creator.

Even soldiers who are far from studying the Torah and Mitzvot are eventually included in this system that leads us all to the holiness of the Creator. That is, they, perhaps without knowing it, are waging a spiritual war in Gaza.

And everyone’s duty is to support them with everything possible. It means not just material support, but connecting our hearts, and from our common heart to help them succeed in everything they are doing. And thus, the entire nation will be involved in this spiritual war.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/21/23, Writing of Rabash “And It Shall Come to Pass When You Come to the Land that the Lord Your God Gives You”

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Question: You said that a ten can open any gate in spirituality. Which ones exactly?

Answer: There are many gates that we have to go through, but the most important gate is the gate of tears. When a person has no strength left to turn to the Creator and is convinced that he is a loser and nothing will help him, then he bursts into tears and the Creator opens the gates to him.

Everyone who comes closer to Him passes through this gate.

Question: What should you ask Him at the moment when you really see that you are a failure?

Answer: Explore what you need, and ask for it.

Question: But what about the quality of bestowal? We are studying that we should ask precisely for it.

Answer: But if you don’t have any impulse for that, then what are you going to ask for?

Question: Is it important to just ask for what you lack, or to ask to be in connection with the Creator?

Answer: It depends on what you choose. Don’t make me choose for you.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/24/23, Writings of Baal HaSulam “My Soul Shall Weep in Secret – 1“

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